Keep Your Distance

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. - Thoreau

when you're depressed

people seem to avoid you like the plague

they figure it's catchy like colds, flu and covid

come to think of it, it's probably best

Author's Note

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." - Thoreau

Reviews

[MCS]

Excellent take on this malady. Reminded me of this...“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[Pete]

wise observation by longfellow. "Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys." - Thoreau